Missile and drone attack on Ukraine on August 25 at night – which targets were knocked down by the Air Defense Forces of Ukraine

Missile attack and air defense operations

It is noted, in general, that on the night of August 25, the enemy attacked the front divisions in Ukraine with missiles of various types.

“Chernigov, Sumy, Kharkov, Donetsk regions were attacked,” the commander said.

• He clarified that Russian troops used ground-based missiles for such attacks (launched from Voronezh and Rostov regions): shield “Iskander-K” and ballistic “Iskander-M”,
• and 6 X-59/X-69 guided anti-aircraft missileslaunched from the airfield of the Kursk and Belgorod regions of the Russian Federation.

“Due to the active opposition from the Defense Forces of Ukraine, most of the missiles did not reach their targets,” said Oleshchuk.

Sbitie “Shakhedov”

In addition, the enemy also used 9 shahed type kamikaze droneswhich was launched from Cape Chauda in the temporarily occupied Crimea.

“Eight Shaheds were shot down by teams of mobile fire brigades in the Nikolaev region,” said the lieutenant general.

What is known about the effects

As the head of the Nikolaev regional military administration (OVA) Vitaly Kim said in his Telegramthat night air defense was working in the region, and 8 UAVs of the type “Shahed 131/136” were shot down. However, due to pieces of enemy drones falling, civilian objects were damaged and there was a fire. But there were no casualties.

“Due to falling debris in the Nikolaevsky district, about 15 residential buildings and outbuildings were damaged“, said the official.

In addition, the head of the fire department said, a dry grass fire broke out, which was quickly extinguished by firefighters.